From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:23:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:23:42 -0500 Received: from noodles.codemonkey.org.uk ([62.49.180.5]:37271 "EHLO noodles.codemonkey.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:23:32 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 00:24:11 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Linux Kernel Subject: Over-enthusiastic OOM killer. Message-ID: <20011213002411.A26944@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The oom killer just killed a bunch of processes on my workstation. What I don't understand, is why this was deemed necessary, when there was 400MB of buffer cache sitting around in memory, and 175MB of free swap space unused. (66mb of swap was used) Seems something is drastically amiss here. The box is still alive, if theres anything else I can provide, although cron.daily just ran 5 minutes after the oomkill, which has polluted the situation a little.. It's been up for just over 10 days on pre2. regards, Dave. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs .